It's time to trim a few things around here--Pink Cascades rose, red meidiland rose, 7-sisters rose, purple smoke bush, purple-leafed chinese fringe flower (laropetalum), and a few other things. I'm also thinning out some stuff--apple mint, crocosmias, purple leaf perilla, vinca major, vinca minor, yellow flag iris, and more. I also just brought home a ton of thyme, marjoram, some money plant, a few ferns, and other things.
If any of you live close enough for an in-person trade, I'd be happy to share with you. Just bring bags, pots, soil, pruners, and markers, and we'll go thru my gardens. You may end up with other plants that I hadn't planned on thinning if you see something you like and I can spare it.
I live in Jonesboro, Ark, about one hour from Mud Island in Memphis. In trade, I am really not looking for more plants as I have about 400 to get in ground now. However, I can't say no to named hostas and daylilies. But please don't tempt me! I'd rather have functional (weather-resistant) birdhouses, pruners (mine are always lost!), anything I can make a trellis out of, old gates, ponds or pond liners, shade cloth, old benches, or just anything I can use in my gardens. I could use some big clay pots, like 10" or bigger, for a craft project I want to do. If you don't have much to trade, don't worry. It's not a big deal.
Most of what I'll be thinning and pruning would be great for a newbie or someone just starting over. And I'd love to make a new friend who lives within driving distance. So give me a holler if you'd like to get together soon.
I will not send any of this for postage. I simply don't have time right now to pack and mail. So this is for pick up only.
NancyAnn
Trimming & Thinning - Want Some?
Hummm, let me see now. How long would it take me to get from KY to ARK?? Just kidding but boy I sure wish I did live closer to you. But if you do decide to do some trades by mail please keep me in mind.
Connie
I wish GA. was closer to AR. too. I have always wanted to visit your gardens. Maybe some day. :)
I wish you guys lived close enough for regular visits. I'm always thinning out plants and whoever is handy carries home a carload of them. I do have a couple of local gardening friends who have helped thin and carried home lots. But some things I have in such abundance that I need a LOT of friends. I guess there's always Freecycle. I could post the offer there. I always get takers when I do. So when I get the stuff dug and ready, I guess that's what I'll do. I'm sorry that you guys have to miss out.
NancyAnn
NancyAnn--Freecycle is a good place to share. I have shared my gardens and even one of my son's power wheelchairs on there. Maybe one day I can talk my bf and son into detouring and stopping by your place when we head to OK. to visit family. If gas prices would go down some more maybe it would be soon. But our old van drinks gas like it was water. lol
I forgot to mention that I have chameleon plant and tons of orange trumpet vine along with some blackberry vines. I also have a nice little vining ivy--NOT english ivy--not nearly as invasive. It's a beautiful light green ivy. And there's more. My whole yard is garden--no grass. And most everything needs to be thinned or pruned since I was too sick last year to do it.
If anyone lives close enough, I could keep you furnished with plants all season long as I divide plants throughout the season.
NancyAnn
Hi, NancyAnn!
Hee, hee! Yes, I DO KNOW that NY is a looooong way from AR! I just wanted to take this opportunity to tell you how wonderfully your babies are doing! I am so happy with the Brug and Butterfly Ginger Lily (?) you sent me in the fall. They both over-wintered happily (and survived the " Great Aphid Wars"), and I am happily anticipating blooms later in the season.
I thank you SO much! You are a wonderful lady, and the potted brug was such a nice treat! My very first real-live planted brug! I will forward photos when I'm at home so you can see how truly great they are doing!
Many thanks...
Hi Sequee,
I sure wish you lived closer. I could send you home with so much stuff!
My "babies" must love you. I bet you spoil them. They were so neglected here. I have so many projects and such extensive gardens that I don't have time to do all the pruning, watering, feeding, etc, that they need. I figure anytime I send them away from home, they're probably taken care of better than when I had them. LOL
If you ever make it down this way, just holler. If you're flying, bring an extra suitcase and we'll pack it full. If you're driving, keep the trunk empty so we can fill it up. There's always something here to thin or prune.
If any of you out there in TN, MO, or MS wanna come over and raid my gardens, come on! I'm right up in the NE corner of AR, bordering on these three states. I'm just an hour across the Mississippi River. And I'm still finding more stuff that needs to be divided. Anyone interested?
NancyAnn
NancyAnn pleeaassee stop tempting me to spend 60$ in gas to come get plants! I am just not up to the 6 hr drive w/ 2 kids that seem to want to kill each other this summer!!! My mouth is water though:(
Tina
Well, I just want come down and hang with you, you sound so nice!!!
Well, Razzie, that's so sweet! I wish you lived closer so we could hang out frequently. I always have something to thin out. My whole yard is a garden--no grass. My local friends have most of what I have now and have cried Uncle. For the time being anyway. When I start dividing the daylilies, I'm sure they'll be here to help with that: One for me, one for NancyAnn, two for me, one for NancyAnn. LOL
Are there no traders in Memphis who would like to come and hang out and scavenge?
NancyAnn
NancyAnn,
Keep that southern hospitality up, inviting everyone and I'll have to call my DSIL to come help you! But, under strict orders she has to mail me a box bursting w/goodies!! They just moved to Millington area of TN. ~ Suzi :)
Also discovered that I have some extra moonflower datura bushes, variegated vinca minor, yellow four oclocks, chameleon plant, limelight artemesia, purple perilla, running elephant ears, and others.
Suzi is you DSIL into gardening? Millington is less than 2 hrs from me.
I suppose I could pot all this up and carry it to the Mid South swap Shadowgirl is planning in Oct. But that means I'll have to take care of it for months. I already have enough to take care of.
I'm sure I'll have more to divide as I continue weeding and redesigning.
NancyAnn
LMK if you decide to do anything for postage +.
Here's your Jamaican Yellow x Pink Beauty! Looks like she just might be big enough to give me (my first ever brug) bloom!
Keep those fingers crossed for me!
Another shot...
And the Ginger Lily - Looking all fuill of herself!
Hi Sequee, I'm glad the plants are doing well for you. But, um, I don't think I can take credit for that brug. Are you sure you got that one from me? Most of mine were unnamed, just colors, and I might have sent you one of those.
You'll love that ginger, and if you have a warm microclimate, you may can leave it outside for winter. I'm in 7a and I leave mine outside without any problem.
I posted on our local freecycle group to give away all these extra plants, and I have several people coming to dig. One lady just left here with buckets of plants, and she's not done yet. She's coming back next weekend to dig some more. It's so cool! I get free labor and she gets free plants. She cleared out quite a bit of space where I plan to redesign a garden. Tomorrow, a couple more ladies are coming over to take some extras, and I just love this! I go about my business and do my own thing and they thin out my stuff. They're even pruning my roses and stuff because they want cuttings to root! One lady is going to root me some white THORNLESS roses! WOW! Another lady has a housefull of computer parts (given to them by an auto dealer when they installed all new comptuers). I mentioned my sister needed a new computer. Hers in 10 yrs old. The lady said she would have one of her grandsons put one together for my sister in exchange for my plants. How nice!
It's too bad you guys don't all live closer. You could come by regularly and get pieces of whatever I'm dividing or culling. My local gardening friends, Liz and Gail, rarely ever go home empty-handed. You wouldn't think things would multiply so well in my red clay and my neglect. I rarely water or fertilize, but these plants just love it here. It still amazes me that I can grow anything. I was the Queen of Black Thumbs for years. Then one day, a canna lived.
When y'all move into my neighborhood, just let me know. I'm sure I'll have something to divide then too. LOL
NancyAnn
It's nice having gardening buddies to share with. JRush lives about 90 miles from me and we get together quarterly to do a major swap and visit Logee's Tropical Nursery. Every time I drop off a carload of stop - what a relief! Then I bring back a carload - dern! She was struck down by voles this year and I am trying to help her rebuild her hosta border. I have so many of those doggone things I just can't even keep up with them. Maybe I should try FreeCycle, too! Hostas, baby Lilacs and maples up the wazoo! That's a great idea to have them just dig up what they want!!!
The brug - not from you??? The tag is on a strip of window blind, and written in pencil. I was sure it was from you. Could have been GingerLily, though. Guess I'd better do some research!
Garden buddies are great. I have three that live locally. Two live in or around my town. Another lives about an hour and a half away. It's always a party when we get together. We help each other build, weed, and shop for more plants. Two of us met online, and the other is a transplant from Houston who attended a workshop Gail and I went to. These three get dibs on my plants, and what's left, I trade here or thru Freecyle.
Check out www.freecycle.org. It's great!! They call it freecycle because everything is FREE--no selling, no buying, no trading, no strings attached. And the main objective is to recycle stuff you might haul off to the dump. It helps keep stuff out of our landfills. You wouldn't believe the stuff people will take off your hands! I no longer go to the dump at all. I list everything I don't want on Freecycle and someone comes and gets it. One man's treasure is another man's treasure!
Recently, right before my garden party, my guest bedroom flooded due to a broken pipe. And my hardwood was ruined--molded, warped, even the layers of wood on each tile was coming apart. The pipe had been leaking for who knows how long. It's the guest room and hadn't been used in a couple of months. So I had 4 weeks to get the hardwood up, the subfloor bleached to prevent further mold, and something else down before I guests arrived. I posted on Freecycle that I needed a piece of carpet for the room. And a guy who got lots of freebies from me before had a brand new remnant just the right size that he wasn't going to use. BRAND NEW!! He gave it to me!!! AND he took all the hardwood. He said he could bleach the mold off some and use it in his hall. And he'd burn the rest in his wood-burning stove. Awesome!!! And the really neat thing is the carpet is the SAME light tan color that is in my wallpaper and on my comforter. Perfect!
So yes, I highly recommend Freecycle. LOL